Antonio Defranceschi of Vodnjan (1925–1944), 1925 – 1944

The family

No family chart is drawn for this person, and that is a statement about the data rather than about them. This archive records kin against a name — the tree on a name page gathers everyone who shares it, so it may hold one person's dates beside another's wife. Rather than hand a reader a family that might not be this person's, the chart is drawn only where the relationship is recorded person by person, which today means the direct line.

What the archive knows

One of two young men of the name from Vodnjan in the Yugoslav victims' census, a year apart. Museum of Genocide Victims, Belgrade — record 2465050024:

field	as the register gives it
Ime / Prezime	Antonio Defranceschi
Roditelj	Domenico
Godina rođenja	1925
Mesto rođenja	Vodnjan (opština Pula)
Mesto boravka 6. aprila 1941	Vodnjan
Nacionalnost	ostalo — «other»
Godina stradanja	05.05.1944
Mesto stradanja	Sv foska vodnja
Okolnost stradanja	NOB i savezničke vojne formacije
Učinilac zločina	nepoznat — unknown

Sveta Foška, at Vodnjan — a church and hamlet just outside the town. ⚠ The «okolnost» is the register's own classification and is reported, not adopted. «NOB i savezničke vojne formacije» places the death in the context of the Partisan and allied forces; the perpetrator column says unknown. This archive records what the entry says and does not characterise it further — the classification of Istrian deaths of 1943–45 is contested, the institution that compiled this index is a party to that argument, and a one-name study is not the place to settle it. (doc for the record as printed.) ⚠ He is not attached to a household here. This archive keeps a Vodnjan line, and these are the right surname in the right town — but the census gives a father's forename and nothing else, and no register page has been read that joins them. Recorded, placed on the line, and not descended. (open.) He was 19 years old.